GitHits announced that it has raised $1.75 million in pre-seed funding to develop what it describes as the “Google of code search.”
The round included participation from Vendep Capital, Trind, and angel investors, including Peter Sarlin, Zach Shelby, and LlamaIndex co-founder Jerry Liu.
GitHits is building tools that give AI coding agents access to open-source code beyond a developer’s local repository. The company said its goal is to help reduce AI hallucinations, retry loops, and token consumption by giving coding agents better context from real open-source implementations.
The company is developing an AI-native, version-aware index of public open-source code. Its tools are designed to help coding agents find working examples of open-source implementations, inspect dependencies, navigate source code, review software components, and identify vulnerabilities.
GitHits said modern software systems often depend heavily on frameworks, libraries, SDKs, and other open-source components that exist outside a local codebase. While coding agents can navigate local repositories, they often struggle to understand external dependencies. GitHits aims to address this by giving agents better visibility into the code behind those dependencies.
The company is launching a free beta version of its CLI tool on Product Hunt and plans to release its first commercial version later this year. GitHits said its long-term vision is to index all public open-source code.
The idea for GitHits originated while co-founder and CTO Olli-Pekka Heinisuo was working at AI consulting company Softlandia. After repeatedly helping colleagues search for open-source code manually, he saw an opportunity to solve the problem with AI. He later teamed up with Jaakko Timonen to spin out the company with Softlandia’s support.
Heinisuo has extensive experience in the open-source ecosystem. He previously developed opencv-python, a software package with more than 100 million downloads that was also used by NASA in its Ingenuity helicopter on Mars.
GitHits is focused specifically on code search for AI agents at a time when broader AI search infrastructure is becoming a major investment category. The company said its focus differs from general-purpose AI search companies by concentrating only on code.
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“Our vision is to index all public open-source code. With this funding, we are launching the beta version of the product today, and the first commercial version later this year.”
Jaakko Timonen, CEO of GitHits
“OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have left a gap in the market. GitHits doesn’t compete with Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor, but complements them by bringing open-source code as context for agents to end retry loops and reduce token consumption. Coding agents are great at navigating your local codebase. The problem is that modern software doesn’t stop at the repository boundary. A large part of the system lives in frameworks, libraries, SDKs, and other open-source dependencies. Agents can’t inspect those nearly as well, so AI has to guess, and it produces code that looks correct but doesn’t work in practice. Exa is building a general-purpose search for AI. GitHits focuses only on code.”
Olli-Pekka Heinisuo, Co-Founder and CTO of GitHits
“We’d been watching GitHits since it was just an idea, and what convinced us was the team that formed around it. Olli-Pekka is a quiet legend in open source and has lived inside this problem for years. At this stage, you invest in people, and this was an easy call.”
Timo Felin, Partner at Vendep Capital
